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I. M. CORNETT.

HOG STY.

APPUCATION FILED MAR. 12. 1914.

Patented J an. 16, 1917.

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JAMES IVE. CORNETT, OF KEWANEE, ILLINOIS.

HOG-STE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Jan. 16, 1915?.

Application filed March 12, 1914. Serial No. 824,188.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, JAMES M. CORNETT, a citizen of the United States, residing at Kewanee, in the county of Henry and State of Illinois, have invented an Improvement in Hog-Sties, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to improvements in barriers for the feed troughs of hog sties, cattle pens, and like stock inclosures and has as one of its objects to provide a barrier which may be moved to position to exclude the stock from the feed trough while the trough is being cleaned or replenished with food and which barrier may subsequently be moved to position to give the stock access to the trough and in such pnanner that all may equally partake of the pod.

In the accompanying drawings; Figure 1 is a view in elevation of the device embodying the present invention. Fig. 2 is an end elevation with the adjacent barrier post broken away. Fig. 3 is a view in elevation of the shaft for moving the barrier. Fig. i is an end elevation thereof.

In the drawings the barrier is indicated in general by the numeral 1 and may comprise end stiles and cross bars which extend between the said stiles and this barrier is mounted between posts or uprights which are indicated by the numeral 2. A shaft having its ends cranked as at 14c and 15 has its said ends mounted in bearings 1 upon the post near the lower ends of the latter and has its portions inwardly of its cranks mounted in bearings 5 upon the end stiles of the barrier near the bottom thereof. The numeral 7 indicates a connecting link or member which at one end is connected as at 6 with the shaft 3 preferably near one of the bearings 5 and at its other end is connected to an operating lever 8 which is fulcrumed at its lower end as at 9 upon a platform 12, it being understood that by rocking this lever oscillatory motion may be imparted to the shaft 3 about its cranked ends for the purpose of shifting the lower portion of the barrier from one position to the other illustrated in Fig. 2 of the drawing and more specifically from a position at one side of thetrough which is indicated by the numeral 13 to a position at the other side of the said trough. The barrier has its end stiles provided each with a guiding member 10 which works slidably through an eye 11 upon the adjacent upright or post 2 and it will be understood that these guiding members and eyes coact to support the barrier in upright position and yet permit of its movement from one to another of the positions illustrated in the said Fig. 2.

At each end of the barrier guards 16 are secured to the platform and to the posts or uprights 2 and these guards are turned inwardly at their outer edges so as to cooperate with the ends of the barrier and prevent passage of the stock between the ends of the barrier and the said posts. It will now be understood that in the use of the device the lever 8 is first operated so as to position the barrier at the pen side of the trough 12 while the trough is being cleaned or replenished with food and that after the food has been placed in the trough and stock are at the barrier the lever may be operated to move the barrier to the other side of the trough, thereby allowing the stock to have access to the trough.

Having thus described the invention, what is claimed as new is:

1. In a structure of the class described, spaced supports, a trough arranged between the supports, a barrier mounted between the supports and arranged for movement to position with its lower end lying at either side of the said trough, cooperating means upon the said supports and the said barrier for maintaining the barrier in upright position and permitting upward movement of the barrier in its movement from one position to the other, a shaft mounted upon the barrier and having cranked ends journaled upon the said supports, and means operatively connected with the said shaft for oscillating the same upon its said cranked ends.

2. In a structure of the class described, spaced supports, a trough arranged between the supports, a barrier mounted upon the supports, coacting means upon the barrier and supports for maintaining the barlatter whereby to position the barrier at rier in upright position, a shaft mounted either side of the said troiwli.

D upon the barrier and having cranked ends JAMES M. CORNETT. journaled upon the support, an actuating Witnesses: 5 lever, and operative connection between the CLYDE E. SHANES, lever and the said shaft for oscillating the D. A. MUROHISQN.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five, cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Eatents, Washington, D. G. 

